1) Soft active materials and devices multifunctional design: coupling analysis of phase transformation and mechanical behavior in gel, LCES etc. soft matter; drive, sense and control of soft active materials under heat, light, electron, force etc. environmental stimuli; design and numerical simulation of flexibility devices.
2) Numerical computing during materials solidification process: multi-physics field computing, microstructure evolution simulation, numerical simulation and failure prediction during casting process.

2000 Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University. Ph.D.

10/2000—10/2002 Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University. Post-doctoral.
10/2002—now Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University.
2004 Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University. Associate Professor.

1) Meie Li, Shan Lv, Jinxiong Zhou,Photo-thermo-mechanically actuated bending and snapping kinetics of liquid crystal elastomer cantilerver, Smart Materials and Structures,2014,23:125012

2) Meie Li, Jiasong Geng, Jinxiong Zhou, Constrained swelling and instability of a temperature-sensitive hydrogel ring, e-Polymers, 2014,14(1):103-106

3) M. Li, C. Jin and J. Zhou*, Finite element implementation of poroelasticity theory for swelling dynamics of hydrogels, Theor. Appl. Mech. Lett. 3, 054009, 2013

4) W. Guo, M. Li, J. Zhou*, Modeling programmable deformation of self-folding all-polymer structures with temperature-sensitive hydrogels, Smart Mater. Struct. 22, 115028, 2013.

5) T. He, M. Li and J. Zhou，Modeling deformation and contacts of pH sensitive hydrogels for microfluidic flow control，Soft Matter, 2012,8,3083.

6) J. Geng, M. Li and J. Zhou, An extended stress-diffusion coupling model for swelling dynamics of polymer gels, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2012,51(8):3466.

7) H. Li, J. Zhou and M. Li, Multiphysics modeling of self-oscillations of polyelectrolyte gel actuators, Int. J. Appl. Mech.,2011,3(2):355.

8) J. Zhou, G. Huang, M. Li, A. K. Soh, Stress evolution in a phase-separating polymeric gel, Model. Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng., 2010, 18(2):025002.

9) M. Li and J. Zhou, Simulating surface-mediated self assembly patterns by a stabilized Fourier spectral method, Mater. Trans., 2008, 49(9):2028.

10) Li ME, Yang GC and Zhou YH, Modeling crystal growth into highly undercooled alloy melts by non-isothermal phase-field method, Chinese Physics, 2005, 14(1): 838。